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The top Communist Party official of Ruili, the Chinese city bordering Myanmar , has been dismissed from his post over “serious dereliction of duty” after failing to prevent Covid-19 outbreaks in recent months. “Three Covid-19 outbreaks within half a year in Ruili, especially the epidemic in March, have severely undermined the epidemic control efforts in the country and the province, and seriously hurt the province’s economic and social development,” authorities in the southwestern province of Yunnan said in a statement on Thursday. It said the dismissal of Gong Yunzun, the city’s party chief who bore the main responsibility for leading...
